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Re: [patch 2/2] iFort compat.: case insensitive symbols (PR 11313)
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:52:28 +0100, Tom Tromey wrote:
> msymbols is sorted by address first.
oops, ok
> This sort of reading could maybe be done in a background thread.
This is again for interactive work like .gdb_index was.
For non-interactive backtracing (ABRT) the threads have no benefits.
> Also, I wonder why we read minsyms from separate debuginfo files.
> Is that ever needed?
In the past I thought GDB should work fine just with DWARF symbols without ELF
symbols.
For example read_var_value looks up for LOC_UNRESOLVED only ELF symbols and
ignores not global DWARF symbols, there are more places like that one.
So far I have given up on the without-minsyms goal, it requires also gcc
changes how DWARF is produced. It may be nice but it is IMO too much work
just cleaning things up without user visible effect.
Regards,
Jan